Important Things Every Yoga Teacher Should Know About

Anatomy

Yoga Anatomy

human body and how each part is affected if ignored. This understanding helps teachers to decipher the kind of asana required in the specific case to give better results.

For every yogic teacher, it is pertinent to learn deeper layers of what constitutes our

Major Movement of the BodyAs our body constitutes of three different dimensional plans but often it is stretched in one way, but by understanding the anatomy of the body, we can integrate all the three planes of movement, built your motion, prevent injuries and improve stability. This also ensures proper alignment and understanding of the risky movements.

The Structure, Composition and Function of the Spine.

Spine is towards the central axis of the body. The understanding of the role it plays, its composition and muscles helps teachers in formulating and customizing the poses as per needs of the students Begin working from its bones, joints and discs and move towards muscles, tendons and ligaments.

Major Bones of the BodyKnowledge about the major bones can help yogic teachers to design the poses accordingly and make the areas strong which are likely to suffer like the hips, spine and the waists. Yoga helps to retain a healthy equilibrium between the bone loss and its process of reconstruction

Major Joints of the BodyKnowing about the different kinds of joints in our body helps in understanding the movements that are safe to perform and the movements that might cause damage to the bones or muscles.

Major Muscles of the Body

As a yogic teacher you can plan a yogic class that aims to strengthen and stretch the muscles in each major muscle group. Athletes can mobilize their hamstring, decompress vertebra and make space for hip flexion and rotation.

Utilize our muscles with the poses like Boat Pose, Dolphin Pose and Side Plank Pose and help built a stable center. Emphasis is laid on the asana that improves the resilience, flexibility and strengthen the muscular elements that reduces or removes muscular pain.

Muscles in Action in Essential Yoga Poses

There are some basic alignment rules that should be followed as any wrong alignment can cause damage or injury to the body part. In many kinds of asana you need to learn to keep your body a straight.

Alignment that could put the Body at Risk.

YOGA ANATOMY

Presented By: AKSHI YOGASHALA